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Let’s leverage on law reforms for the sake of unity

One of the most distinctive features of modern architecture is its accessibility for people with disabilities. Building malls, apartment complexes and offices barrier-free is fortunately becoming standard nowadays in Kenya too. This is important so that we can include more of our brothers and sisters into the social fabric of our nation, and benefit from their talents and contributions.

To create a barrier-free world is a human instinct almost as old as the drive to survive. Some of the oldest human milestones are mountain passes on ridges that separated territories, and early settlements were often built at points where rivers were easy to cross. Bridges, crossing the natural barrier that is a river, were crucial in development of societies around the globe, for the exchange of ideas and goods.

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